page_title: Craigenputtock
hierarchical_section_title: Craigenputtock
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle
context_page_description: Craigenputtock is the craig/whinstone hill of the puttocks. It is the 800-acre upland farming estate in the civil parish of Dunscore in Dumfriesshire, within the District Council Region of Dumfries and Galloway.
  It comprises the principal residence – a two-storey, four bedroomed Georgian Country House, two cottages and a farmstead, 315 acres of moorland hill rising to 1,000 ft above sea level, 350 acres of inbye ground of which 40 acres is arable/ploughable and 135 acres of woodland/forestry. It was once the residence of the well-known writer Thomas Carlyle, who wrote many famous works there.
  It was the property for generations of the family Welsh, and eventually that of their heiress, Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle, which the Carlyles made their dwelling-house in 1828, where they remained for seven years, and where Sartor Resartus was written. The property was bequeathed by Thomas Carlyle to the Edinburgh University on his death in 1881. It is now home to the Carter-Campbell family, and managed by the C.C.C.
context_section_description: Craigenputtock is the craig/whinstone hill of the puttocks (small hawks). It is the 800-acre (3.2 km²) upland farming estate in the civil parish of Dunscore in Dumfriesshire, within the District Council Region of Dumfries and Galloway. 
  It comprises the principal residence – a two-storey, four bedroomed Georgian Country House (category B listed), two cottages and a farmstead,  315 acres (127 ha) of moorland hill rising to 1,000 ft (300 m) above sea level, 350 acres (140 ha) of inbye ground of which 40 acres (16 ha) is arable/ploughable and 135 acres (55 ha) of woodland/forestry.  It was once the residence of the well-known writer Thomas Carlyle, who wrote many famous works there.
  It was the property for generations (circa 1500) of the family Welsh, and eventually that of their heiress, Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle (1801–1866) (descended on the paternal side from Elizabeth, the youngest daughter of John Knox), which the Carlyles made their dwelling-house in 1828, where they remained for seven years (before moving to Carlyle's House in Cheyne Row, London), and where Sartor Resartus was written.  The property was bequeathed by Thomas Carlyle to the Edinburgh University on his death in 1881. It is now home to the Carter-Campbell family, and managed by the C.C.C. (Carlyle Craigenputtock Circle).
caption: Carlyle, painting by Whistler
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